Pet Rat Room Ideas

Warnes plays it safe and keeps her dogs locked in a room when her cat and her rat have playtime together.

Pet rat room ideas.

It s so much fun to play with pet rats outside of their cage. See more ideas about pet rats rats pets. A large wire cage is best especially one with horizontal bars that allow the rat to climb on the sides. Find a house or nest for them to sleep in.

Pet rat facts. A tall cage with ramps and platforms is ideal for providing room for multiple rats. Better get your room rat proofed. Most pet rats are actually a type of rat called a norway rat rattus norvegicus.

They love running around exploring new territories and being stimulated and enriched by changes in their environment. Average lifespan of a pet rat is 18 to 36 months. Closed thurs feb 16 open fri feb 17 from 12 5 open sat feb 18 from 10 5 open sun feb 19 from 12 5 open mon feb 20 from 10 5 closed tues feb 21 closed wed feb 22 closed thurs feb 23 open fri feb 24 from 10 5 open sat feb 25 from 10 5 open sun feb 26. At a minimum a cage with 12 by 24 inches 2 square feet of floor space is okay for two smaller rats as long as the cage is tall and you provide shelves and or hammocks for extra living space.

Rats like having a little home to sleep in when they re tired you ll find that if you don t have a house in their cage your rats will sleep in a corner or near the sides of the cage usually not flopped out in the middle. Some dogs are good with rats but my dogs are a little too interested says warnes. I do however want them to be able to run around in a largish space so i came up with this temporary and semi portable room. Instinctively they like to have a cozy little place to.

Jun 7 2019 short clips of fun things rats do. Medicine pills rats love scouting for new foods to munch on and will search every nook and cranny of your. It s our responsibility to make sure any room in which our rats play is safe. It s the same with domesticated rats.

Other names for a norway rat are common rat brown rat street rat sewer rat hanover rat norwegian rat or wharf rat. One example of a rat play room in my space i don t allow my rats to free range. In the wild rats have burrows. There are many dangerous hidden in the average room for a rat.

Housing the rat. A norway rat body is typically nine to eleven inches long. I devote most of a human room to this thing but one can always make it smaller too if moving it or closing it down becomes important.